As mentioned in the subject above, I had a period when I stopped for quite a while. So I’m trying brush up to fill up the gaps and if needed, I might have to relearn some stuff
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Depends on how far along you were to begin with. I came back after a year long gap and I didn’t need to relearn N5 because I had already been at the N3 level. I definitely forgot most of N4 though, and restarted from the beginning of N4. Test out how much you know at whatever level you were at and go backwards. In my case, I would try the N3 content, see I don’t remember much of it, reset it, then go back and try the N4 content, see I don’t remember much of it, and reset it. Go to the N5 content and see I know almost all of it, so no need to reset it or start there. So I then start from N4. Do something similar. You are level 5 so I guess you won’t need to reset any levels on this site, but you can still go through the content at the different levels on this site and see if you know it or not. Start from a level you know less than 70 percent of the content for would be my suggestion.
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I recommend starting from N4.
I personally started over from the beginning in bunpro. Since most of it is review, you can breeze through without attracting ghosts
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You can use the cram feature on N levels and see how well you do on them and take it from there
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only you can tell.
If you are referring to bunpro, manually level up whatever feels too easy
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This is what brought me to Bunpro in the first place, where even tho my grammar knowledge was probably in the N3 area (and quite sporadic, dipping into both N2 and N1) I wanted to go thru every grammar deck in order, skipping the stuff I already know along the way.
With N5-N4 I could pretty much just batch mark everything as known, but I kept a few points here and there that felt worth reinforcing; from N3 on tho I try not to mark anything known right away, so if I’m fairly confident in any grammar I’ll just set it to seasoned 1 or smth.
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I’ve recently returned to studying after a 2 year gap. I had studied Tobira in a class, but I had been using Bunpro pretty inconsistently, so I was only 3/4 through N4 content here. Plus, Anki deleted my user data, so I lost my vocab and Kanji progress.
I decided to take grammar from where I was on Bunpro at the time. I’ve done 3 new grammar points per day on average, since I’m already familiar with a good chunk of it.
For vocab and Kanji, I started over to make sure there aren’t any gaps in my knowledge. I’m using Bunpro/jpdb for vocab and KKLC/KanjiStudy app for Kanji. It’s also going pretty smoothly since it’s 90% review.
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Logically this sounds like the best approach especially since I don’t know where my level is. Thank you so much for the advice!
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Sounds about the right approach. But what’s the ghosts you mentioned?
Ooh the cream feature. I’ll try to take a look. Thank you!
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When you get a question in review wrong, it makes a “ghost review” duplicate of the review item which lets you see the review item again without affecting the SRS level of the actual review item in question
It’s not good to add alot (more than 10 a day) that you don’t know, because every time you get them wrong,
doubling your reviews. Since you already know alot, adding 10 to 20 a day would be fine.
Not sure of your proficiency before you took a break, but if you’re wary about marking all the N5 as known but don’t want to start completely from the beginning, you can do an in between and start N5 grammar points already halfway through 
Go to the N5 grammar deck > Deck Settings > Default SRS level for new items and set that to a higher number.
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I marked about half of N5 as known but realized that while I can recognize the grammar points I couldn’t write them out myself, so decided to just go through quickly and see which ones I should relearn. If I got them on the first try they’re marked as master and if not they’re kept for review
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